1. “Your purpose should always be to know that was intended to be known.”
2. “If the whole earth is infinitely small in comparison with the sphere of the stars, what is man compared with all these created beings.”
3. “The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.”
4. “You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.”
5. “Do not consider it proof just because it s written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.”
6. “Man’s shortcomings and sins are all due to its form, while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.”
7. “Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.”
8. “The person who wishes to attain human perfection should study logic first, next mathematics, then physics and lastly metaphysics.”
9. “It is better to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.”
10. “No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.”
